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Here are a few of the recent releases at Caliver Books. We'll be open over the coming August bank holiday weekend as normal, but if you're planning to visit our Eastwood shop on Bank Holiday Monday, we'll be open by appointment only, so please drop us a line any time between now and Saturday to let us know when you want to drop by.
Looking forward to Partizan in the first week of September – we'll be bringing along all the latest releases, and as always, if there's anything you want us to bring specially for you, just let us know.
Recent Releases at Caliver Books
Napoleons Battles
Price: £36.50 GBP
Napoleons Battles
Marechal (4th) Edition
184 pages full-color A4 hardback
Robert L. Coggins and S. Craig Taylor, Jr
Napoleons Battles is a "grand-tactical" wargame which covers the period of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, from 1792 to 1815. In these rules, players assume the role of army or Corps commanders.
With NB, you have the full flexibility that many other games fail to provide so that you can play tournament battles with a standard championship army that can be played in two hours, or recreate bigger historical Battles like Waterloo, Austerlitz, Talavera, Marengo to enjoy such large-scale engagements, involving multiple players in each side. The real Napoleonic wargame!
Dungeon Saga: Dwarf King's Quest
Price: £44.50 GBP
Based on the classic fantasy characters and monsters, we have all grown up with from the fantasy universe. Dungeon Saga is a classic dungeon crawler of swords and sorcery, where mighty heroes with various skills must work together to battle the evil monsters in a tight and twisting fantasy dungeon for treasure and glory. Able to play, as either the heroic questers, or as the master behind the forces of the Necromancer, this is a high-quality set of pre-colored plastic miniatures and scenery that can also be re-painted to enhance their look. This is a great game where your characters can progress and upgrade through gaining experience and treasures, as through your journey and 3D interactive gaming environments allow you to really immerse yourself in the adventure. All the models provided are one-piece miniatures, meaning you can play straight out of the box with the stage by stage introduction to the rules and with the durable double-sided gaming tiles you are in for hours of fun with endless dungeon combinations.
All in all, a pretty amazing Dungeon game for up to five players, huge amounts of figures, set dressing etc. All in a nifty box, incredible value at £44.50 GBP
Swordsmen of the King
Price: £14.99 GBP
Swordsmen of the King
Charles I's Nephews Rupert and Maurice at War
Jeffrey James
184 pages paperback
The story of Charles I's German nephews Rupert and Maurice during the English Civil War (1642-46) – men dubbed by critics at court the King's Swordsmen, and by their opponents, as the Bloody Cavaliers. Analyses the battles and campaigns they fought, drawing on first-hand accounts to evoke the experience of 17th century warfare. The action is set in the context of ECW politics, exploring tensions between the princes' family (ruined by the Thirty Years War), the English Parliament at Westminster, and the Royal Court at Oxford.
General Quarters – Post Captain 1793-1815
Price: £25.00 GBP
Wargames rules for Age of Sail naval wargaming
For all scales
Single ship to squadron action
It enables you to simulate convoy actions, commerce raiding, cutting out expeditions, gunboat clashes, and shore raids along with a variety of single ship duels and small squadron actions. Boat and cargo handling, challenge and deception, current and tide, floating batteries and shore defenses, kedging, mortar bombardments by bomb vessels, prize crews, stern way, blanketing and wind shadow and the less well-known types of sailing rigs and vessels are all covered.
Set during naval warfare in the period 1793 – 1815 ( the height of Age of Sail Era – the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812), and is designed for naval miniatures of all scales.
English Army Lists of the Early 1640s
Price: £11.50 GBP
By S F Jones
130p. fully indexed
Contains ten army and navy lists covering the Bishops' War of 1640, the English Parliament's response to the Irish Rebellion of late 1641, and the outbreak of the first English Civil War in 1642. All are transcribed directly from copies of the original documents, giving the names of 2,200 men including officers of horse and foot, naval commanders, and auxiliary staff.
Wellington's Engineers: Military Engineering in the Peninsular War 1808-1814
Price: £21.50 GBP
Mark S. Thompson
256 pages Hardback
The role of the Royal Engineers in the Peninsular War has long been neglected and often misunderstood, and Mark Thompson's history is the first full account of their work and of the contribution they made throughout the conflict. He draws on his unrivaled collection of the engineers' letters and diaries in order to tell, in vivid detail, the story of the war as they experienced it. His narrative describes their role in all the major operations between 1808 and 1814, and it demonstrates the extraordinary range of tasks they undertook, from surveys and reconnaissance to the building of roads and bridges, siege works and field fortifications.